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05-23-2017, 03:41 PM
Joe Lieberman's Benghazi Connection
Trump's possible FBI chief pick lobbied for a Libyan politican who courted a Benghazi terrorist suspect.
May 19, 2017
Jim Cole/AP
As President Donald Trump escaped Washington on Friday for his first overseas trip, the White House announced that he wasn't yet ready to reveal his pick to replace James Comey, the FBI director he brazenly fired the previous week. But one name on his list appeared to be ahead of the others: former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the onetime Democrat who was Vice President Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign.
Will Republicans care about Joe Lieberman's Benghazi connection?
Lieberman may not be an odd choice for Trump. He finished up his Senate career as an independent. Perhaps more important, since leaving the Senate in 2013, Lieberman has been a senior counsel at the Kasowitz Benson Torres law firm (http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-joe-lieberman-trump-kasowitz-611182), which has defended Trump in numerous disputes over the years. But as a member of that law firm, Lieberman also had the unusual job of promoting and representing a Libyan businessman and politician who tried to court an alleged terrorist accused of leading the 2012 attack on the Benghazi compound that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/joe-lieberman-benghazi-trump-fbi
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Trump's possible FBI chief pick lobbied for a Libyan politican who courted a Benghazi terrorist suspect.
May 19, 2017
Jim Cole/AP
As President Donald Trump escaped Washington on Friday for his first overseas trip, the White House announced that he wasn't yet ready to reveal his pick to replace James Comey, the FBI director he brazenly fired the previous week. But one name on his list appeared to be ahead of the others: former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the onetime Democrat who was Vice President Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign.
Will Republicans care about Joe Lieberman's Benghazi connection?
Lieberman may not be an odd choice for Trump. He finished up his Senate career as an independent. Perhaps more important, since leaving the Senate in 2013, Lieberman has been a senior counsel at the Kasowitz Benson Torres law firm (http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-joe-lieberman-trump-kasowitz-611182), which has defended Trump in numerous disputes over the years. But as a member of that law firm, Lieberman also had the unusual job of promoting and representing a Libyan businessman and politician who tried to court an alleged terrorist accused of leading the 2012 attack on the Benghazi compound that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/joe-lieberman-benghazi-trump-fbi
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